How can I initiate a call on the press of a Button?

Question

I am in the process of building an app for my business. I would like to include telephone numbers and when a user presses the telephone button - I would like for that to call our business.

My question is.. is there a way to set up a button that when pressed...will call us?
I am using Eclipse
I am using Windows XP
I am using android 3.2

I know it is very easy to do using jquery in Dreamweaver 6.0...but I want to make my app better -- so I am trying to pick up Java along the way of developing this app.

Answer 1

Yes you can do this and it is incredibly easy to do. Essentially all you need is this intent:

String phoneNumber = "tel:123456789"
Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
callIntent.setData(Uri.parse(phoneNumber));
startActivity(callIntent);